Hard Times mind map

Conditional sentences 1 st type

This is an activity students did in the second year some days ago.
After having listened to a famous song of the 1970s If you leave me now by Chicago students were explained the use of the conditional sentences first type.

Then they were divided into groups of four and they were given the following activity:
Write down about the crazy things your parents said to you when you were a child. 
They wrote sentences starting If you..............

During the next lesson I asked them to stand, I read each of their sentences and I told them:  go on the right if you  have really heard in your lives that sentence from your  parents....or go on the left if you have never heard the sentence......

They had fun......this was a way to make them do a writing activity and a listening activity as well.

Of course this will also be a reading activity....since they will read all of their sentences on this blog!

When I was a child my parents thought Playstation 2 was bad for me.
They said: if you spend too much time on PS2, you won't see very well (your eyesight will get worse and worse)

When I was a child I always made a face and my mum said:
 if you make that face, an angel will change your face and your face will make like that forever.


When I was a child my grandmother said:
if you look at a fixed point for a long time, you'll go blind

My mother always said:
if you eat lots of spinach, you'll be as strong as Braccio di Ferro (Popeye)

My father said: if you eat lots of carrots you'll see better

My parents said: when you see blood in action movies, don't worry, it'll be just tomato

My parents said " when one of your teeth falls, a fairy will come close to you during the night and she will bring to you some money

My mum said to me: if you eat too much, one day you'll explode (burst)

When I was a child my mum said: if you drink too much water when you eat, some frogs will grow into your stomach

My mum said to me: if you keep singing, it'll rain
My mum said to me: if you misbehave, a witch will bring to you a lot of coal

When I was a child my parents always said:

if you eat a lot of fish, you'll be an intelligent girl one day
They said to me: if you stay on your phone too much, you'll lose your eyesight one day
They also said: if you put one of your fingers in your mouth, your hands will fall down
My parents said. if you go in the darkness, Giufà will eat you

If you don't sleep in the afternoon, Mommy Serra will come and make you sleep forever
If you wear your mother's wedding ring, you'll always be unlucky.